This month's issue goes far out into the desert with Bat for Lashes and features a major interview with EYE of Boredoms and a huge collections special for S/S 09.

In this month’s Dazed & Confused, we accompany Bat For Lashes to the Joshua Tree desert for a cosmic photo shoot amongst the lizards and hot rocks. Natasha explains how the iconic landscape inspired her new album Two Suns, admits that she’s bored of everybody thinking she's a mystical creature who drinks unicorn’s tears, and why she felt the need to invent a blonde bombshell alter ego. If you want to get drunk on musical illusion look no further…

We also have the first major British interview for years with EYE, leader of Japanese noise legends, Boredoms. He takes us on a tour of his house and private swamp, talks about his influence on modern music, and introduces us to the Magical ArtRoom, an art collective changing the face of Asian creativity.

Elsewhere, cult British designer Hussein Chalayan celebrates his first major British exhibition at the Design Museum and gives his opinion on how he thinks the fashion industry will cope with the recession; Darren Aronofsky discusses working with Mickey Rourke on The Wrestler; the fashion team assemble a huge collections special featuring everyone from Alexander McQueen to Jil Sander; Hip-hop legend Erick Sermon talks about bad haircuts, vocoders, and homophobic rap; Taryn Simon discusses her photography; plus new music profiles on The Do, The Soft Pack, Wavves, An Experiment on a Bird in the Airpump, Alessi’s Ark, Francis & the Lights, and These Are Power